Here's an installment of the "Nite Timer" biweekly comic strip that
Greg O'Malley and I did back in the late '70s.

GREG: It's my personal favorite, even more than our later finale
and swansong "Epic Christmas Edition". It's a bit of a chore to read,
but the Kirby comes right at you.

Aside from being our tribute to Jack Kirby, it was also our affectionate
sendoff to the soon to be defunct COMPLEAT ENCHANTER comic book shop in
Minneapolis. Their lease expired and would not be renewed, to make
way for a
storefront church. I'm afraid that we were a bit hard on the
parishioners, but hey, there are SO MANY churches and SO FEW comic book
shops!

This is the first and only time I have ever been involved with a comic
in which JESUS makes an appearance!

MARK: Me too. As they used to say about Superman, he's too powerful
to have much of a story built around him. My attitude toward religious
groups varies according to the group and to how they behave. As I recall,
this was a "Jesus freak" outfit, and they'd determined that a comic store
was, by definition, immoral. (BTW, for anyone who keeps up with such stuff,
Greg Ketter, now owner of Dreamhaven and publisher of Neil Gaiman, owned
that shop. He's the one in the last panel with his chin on his hand.)

In this particular installment, Greg and I did the plotting (such as
it is) together, I came up with the panel breakdowns and the rough script,
and Greg polished it up. He always had a way with words that brought them
to life, while I tended to be a little more pedestrian. Then Greg lettered
the whole thing--I had no real affinity for lettering, but LOVED how much
more professional these things looked with someone with talent did that--and
it looks to me as though we BOTH had a hand in the inking.

I have printed copies of all of these SOMEPLACE around here, and when
I can (first) find them, and then find the time, I'll scan and post them
in order. (Seth says weoughta color them as well--whaddaya think, Greg?
We never really worked out what color ANY of that stuff was supposed to
be, not even the main character's costume.)